St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-11
AFTER THE EXPLOSION.


declaration that he was insane ycster-
day drove him to commit suicide.
AFTER THE EXPLOSION.
A Terrible Scene of Excitement
and CONSERVATION.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10.-The explosion in
Lingg's cell created a decided sensation
in the jail. All the prisoners, over 200,
heard the report. Jailer Folz was the
one who carried the news that Lingg
had used such deadly means to make
away with himself, to the other an
archists: The jailer apprOachedi Par
sons cell.
'.Lingg has killed himself,' said Mr..
Folz.
''Great God, is that so?'' exclaimed
Parsons.
''Yes, it is fact" was the reply.
C"Well, my God!" exclaimed Parsons,
81 wish had some dynamite myself. I
would kill myself only too quickly"
), August Spies was then informed Of
the tragedy. "Ieypected nothing else,"
finding of the bombs in his cell last Sun
day, was satisfied that if it was poSsi-
BILE he would make away with himself.
For my own and my comrades sake,
am glad he is out of the way"
ACCORDING TO JAILER FOLZ,
all of the remaining anarchists are comA
pletely broken down. They look OH the
suicide OF Lingg as placing him in the
category OF an extreme anarchist, which
place they do not wish to occupy them
selves. Schwab became deeply de-
pressed. He walked up and down his
cell with his head on his breast. EngeL
and Fischer refused to talk to their
keeper, but were evidently almost
overwhelmed by the tragedy. Jailer
Folz and his son Otto, who acts as chief
pressed this evening over the event of
the day. Mr.. Folz was asked to explain
the way in which Lingg had kept his
dynamite cap from his keepers. Said
he: Il have two theories. You know
that Lingg had very bushy head of
hair. 1t is not without the bounds Of
possibility that he placed the cap i'll his
locks and kept it there while we
searched him last Sunday. At that
time he was stripped completely. My
deputies searched all his clothing and
could find nothing of a suspicious char
acter. Then again | have theory
which | hardly like to speak about.
have known of cases." he continued
slowly, ''Where women thieves haze
concealed their stolen property in parts
of their person which would be indeIi-
cate to specify. Lingg may have done
the same thing. OF course, this is more
speculation, but it came into my mind
while studying up the various features
of the case"
DEPUTY SHERIFF O'NEIIL
told the following story to an Associated
Press reporter. BY way of preface, it
may be said that this same deputy has
been stationed directly in front of
Lingg's cell.and Deputy Englehardt was
his brother officer. Said O'Nelll: 'At
$40 o'clock everything in the Jail was
quiet. The common prisoners were
taking their breakfast III the usual man
ner. Jaiier Conrad FolZ, having driven
from his home on the North side, en-
tered the Jail at the hour mentioned.
His first question was as to how Lingg
felt. This remark was delivered to my
very quiet this morning. had my back
to the door of his cell, but to assure my
self turned about and looked into the
incloSure. Lingg was lying down on
his cot. There was candle burning
on his table. The use of can
die has been allowed him for
some time. Jailer FolZ went into
his private office, which is about twenty
feet from the cage in which Lingg's cell
is. A moment later there was an ex-s
plOSiOn. To my mind it was such an
explosion as would be OccasiOned by the
discharge of double barreled shotgun,
heavily loaded with not only bird, but
buckshOt. Immediately myself, Engle-
hardt, with Deputies Egan and Hogan,
the two latter being near at hand,
70 tba dnrr Of tho coll At tho
moment of the explosion ,Jailer FOlZ ran
out of his office and crossing the recep-
ton room of the JAZZ, came to our as
siStance. At this minute we saw few
wreathS of smoke coming out of the cell
occupied by i.ingg. The prisoner was
OH the floor. The lower part of his face
was such
A MASS OF BLOOD
that the features were unrecOgniZable.
Blood was scattered over the floor. on
the cot, in places on the wall and the
body of the suicide was covered with it,
Deputy Egan was Immediately dis
patched to the insane department of the
Jail. This is reached by running down
the iron steps, crossing the stone yard,
dividing the basement, again up pair
of stairs and finally into the Doctors
private apartments. When the doctor
came to the jail proper he saw at once
that the case was one which he could
not safely handle alone. He sent mes
senger around to DIR. Fenger'S house
which is on LaSaHe avenue, few
blocks away. DR.. Fenger is a skilled
surgeon. AS soon as he arrived he
ordered Lingg taken to another room.
The one selected was the bath room of
the Jail. The dying man was carried to
this apartment by myself and the three
deputies mentioned. He was placed on
a hastily improvised table. BY this
time three other physicians had arrived.
One dressed the torn flesh, another gave
to the tongue of the mortally
wounded nan. A portion of the tongue
was left ard was attached to the palate.
This fell back into the throat,
stopping Linge's breathing. The rhy-
Sicians pulled this back and string
was attached which was held by dep
uty, thus allowing respiration. While
this was going on another surgeon oper-
ated deOdorizer, another had syr-
inge i'll his hands and frequently i'll
jected portions of brandy and again
doses of salt. Morphine injections
were also given."
,Jailer Conrad FolZ thus explains the
manner in which LiDgg took his life.
He said: '.Lingg in some way became
possessed of dynamite cap. This cap
is between one and one and half
inches long. 1t is made of copper and
the outer end is plugged up with
piece of lead. The copper for at least
half an inch is filled with dynamite.
Then small portion is filled with full
powder. Into this powder
runs fEse made of braided cloth. In
Contimued on Fifth P..ge.